Around 300 men have spoken out about their experiences at the reform school in the small panhandle town of Mariana in the 1950s and 1960s. And they said they were certain that some of their schoolmates had died as a result of the treatment they received.

They're called the White House Boys — a group of men, many now in their 60s and 70s — who were sent to the Dozier school when they were children. They take the name from a small white building on the school grounds where boys were beaten. Jerry Cooper was sent to the school in 1961. He says guards beat the boys using a leather strap.

Kimmerle is an associate professor at the University of South Florida who has worked with international teams to help locate and identify remains in the Balkans, Peru and Nigeria.

With the state's permission, she and a team of researchers used ground penetrating radar to locate nearly 100 unmarked graves at the school, nearly double the amount previously known.

Backed by relatives of boys who died there, Kimmerle and her team asked the state for permission to exhume the bodies so remains can be identified and returned to their families. The administration of Gov. Rick Scott so far has refused, saying it lacks the authority to approve exhumation.

Originally Posted By: NPR

Kimmerle and her team are looking for another burial ground at the school, graves that, if found, will raise still more questions about what happened to the children who were housed at Florida's most notorious reform school.

The boys were buried in simple coffins in the Boot Hill cemetery section of the school. The remains were recovered along with items like belt buckles, buttons, and in one case, a marble.

From 1900-2011, the Dozier School in Marianna, Florida, was a state-run reform school for boys who found themselves in trouble - whether stealing cars, skipping school, or in the case of some children as young as one, needing an orphanage when none was available.

Others alleged that they were whipped until they lost consciousness and that the punishments were made harsher for boys that cried.[8] Some former inmates also claimed that there was a "rape room" at the school where they were sexually abused.[24] The complainants said that some of the victims were as young as nine years old

Others alleged that they were whipped until they lost consciousness and that the punishments were made harsher for boys that cried.[8] Some former inmates also claimed that there was a "rape room" at the school where they were sexually abused.[24] The complainants said that some of the victims were as young as nine years old

At age thirteen and while incarcerated at the Florida School for Boys at Marianna, a staff person sexually abused me.

After being taken to the White House, I was given a beating for trying to run a way. After the beating (by Troy Tidwell) I made a remark he did not appreciate. I told him that one of these days he will pay for the beating and he got very upset at me. Another staff person left the building and left Mr. Tidwell and me alone.

He made it very clear to me that I would pay a very large price for my smart mouth remark. He told me that I was a very cute little boy and said “I bet you have never sucked a fucking dick, have you boy.”

At the time I had no ideal what he was talking about. He told me that he was going to stick his penis inside of my mouth and make me suck. He had me get onto my knees and pull his pants down. He took me by my head and forced is penis inside of my mouth and he told me to “mouth up and down on his penis” and that I better not bite down or I will pay a very deep price for it.

Originally Posted By: John Patterson jr

Another time was one night after I was caught for smoking a cigarette. Mr. Tidwell and another staff person took me to the White House and I was given twenty-five licks.

But instead of taking me right back to the cottage or to the detention right away – they took me to a place that was behind a building and downstairs. Later on I found out that was the “RAPE ROOM”.

Haut de la Garenne is(was) an orphanage located on an island off the southern coast of England. It is on the Isle of Jersey. I'm not familiar with that region at all. The orphanage has now been shut down and there is a state of denial about what was going on. But it was apparently infamous for flagrant child abuse carried on there. The information officially reported smacks of "coverup". Children from that orphanage were sexually abused and sometimes used in satanic ritual abuse. The island is apparently populated with exceptionally wealthy people. Some of the articles cited that wealthy/famous people obtained children for their abuse from this source. See the note below on the British public figure Jimmy Saville. He is now deceased and MS has a long thread concerned with his crimes against children. There is a long string of British notables who are implicated with child abuse related to this orphanage. They are difficult or impossible to prosecute because of their money, power, and connections.

Don't underestimate the importance of this. One source makes the statement:

Originally Posted By: sott.net

Since Napoleonic times Jersey has been one of the world's centers for dirty money. It has 55 banks, over 33,000 registered companies and more than $300 billion deposited in the Island at any one time. Much of the money comes from the world's ruling elite, mafias and intelligence agencies. They put their money in Jersey for the anonymity and low tax rate.

Similar situations are ongoing in the USA. The books: Franklin Cover-up by DeCamp and the Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal by Nick Bryant document these problems in the USA. A similar situation seems to apply in that many or most of the patrons of these loci of crimes against children can't be prosecuted because they are perpetrated by rich and powerful figures who have in many cases morally compromised the law enforcement officials.

In 1991 Police in Cambridgeshire England raided the home of Neil Hocquart who abused children in Britain and Guernsey and, with a social worker from Jersey, supplied child pornography for a huge international sex ring. Yet police did not investigate further.

Originally Posted By: sott.net

Since Napoleonic times Jersey has been one of the world's centers for dirty money. It has 55 banks, over 33,000 registered companies and more than $300 billion deposited in the Island at any one time. Much of the money comes from the world's ruling elite, mafias and intelligence agencies. They put their money in Jersey for the anonymity and low tax rate.

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